Woah, Time Flies By Fast!

I promised a post on Herschel and by golly, that’s what you’re going to get!

Herschel is a school in Cape Town (No way!), it is and all girls school with a uniform which looks something like this: >>>

Your hair needs to be tied up, you’re not allowed to wear any jewelry except a watch and studs, and make-up is completely unacceptable.“ That sounds like such a nightmare.”Some people may think, but it actually isn’t. It means you can stay in bed for a bit longer in mornings, and you don’t have to be fussed about your appearance.

And talk about staying in bed; since school starts at around 7.30, you can almost guarantee that the majority of Herschel girls will be at school just after 7.00, 7 o’clock, 0700! An unimaginable time in the life of Dutch students!  Some people are at school even earlier if they have something ridiculous like basketball or waterpolo practice at 6 in the morning o.0

All the students start off their day with a tutor class, where their tutor teacher just tells them what’s going on and when they have to be somewhere. Then you spend the rest of your morning walking from class to class, possibly getting lost, and looking forward to the breaks. I have tried to pick all of the fun subjects, such as; Drama, Art, Science, Math, English and Consumer Studies.

Consumer Studies is a subject I recommend all schools should have! Why? Because during practical’s we bake pies and yummy goodies! This is a lemon meringue pie I baked with Annick Teepe last week:

The theory lessons are not so nice though. As some people might know, the food I despise the most is egg. Even the word sounds horrible. I can’t stand the taste, the smell, anything!  And guess what we’ve been talking about during everything single theory lesson so far… Eggs. The enthusiasm in my voice is probably unbearable for you right now, but there is nothing more I can do except for to suck it up and cross my fingers we start talking about butter soon.

English is probably one of my favourite subjects (Is it possible that I can hear my Dutch English teachers heart fluttering?). The topic we’re on now is Macbeth, Shakespeare, as some of you very well know. During every class I seem to be repeating the same quote over and over again in my head (One Annick, Charlie L. and Jessy v.E had practically imprinted into my brain for the Shakespeare Shorts):

Double double, toil and trouble,
Fire burn  and cauldron bubble!

To finish off, here’s a picture of a cupcake the school baked for the students (Mwahaha free cupcakes!) :